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This ad lives up to its “curiously satisfying” slogan. For who anticipated that the “Asian Baptist Student Koinonia” would be so playfully PoMo? In the great Pop Art tradition, the ABSK has appropriated a classic image of American consumerism and turned it to its own purposes. The point of this endlessly reproduced parody is not, of course, to sell breath mints, but to advertise values antithetical to materialism itself...
Some parents in Aspen, Colo., are hopping mad that their kids may learn Downward-Facing Dog in school. At a packed school-board meeting last week, Steve Woodrow, a Baptist minister and parent of two students at Aspen Elementary School, challenged the school's plan to teach yoga this fall on the grounds that instruction in the ancient practice of breathing and stretching introduces religion into the classroom and thus is unconstitutional. School officials planned to launch a program called Yoga Ed, already used in public schools in Los Angeles, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio, in hopes that it would help...
...Hutchinson's personal life has raised eyebrows. The Baptist minister left his wife in 1999. Within a year he had married a younger former staff member. The issue will probably not be decisive - Bill Clinton's Arkansas is not unfamiliar with political peccadilloes - but it is not helping Hutchinson, even as he sounds the familiar refrain that voters should judge him on the totality of his career...
...Sunday morning in Sacramento's Meadowview community, and hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants--men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game--are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish-language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...DIED. WILLIAM WARFIELD, 82, acclaimed baritone best known for his portrayal of Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; in Chicago. The son of an Arkansas Baptist preacher, Warfield first sang the part in a 1952 European tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department...